My father is a farmer in North Eastern Europe and he’s interested in industrial hemp but no one knows much about harvesting or processing the crop. Where is the best place to find information for that, including ways of harvesting and machinery for further processing? Are there any farmers I could ask questions regarding aspects of growing industrial hemp? Indrek Mandmets
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Hans // August 4, 2008 at 9:46 am |
Hello to North Eastern Europe (is ist Lituania?) – I don`t know about actuality and seriousness of your request, but I`m participating in a group of researchers and engineers in Germany developing and building such machinery you are looking for. In case of continued interest feel free to leave a message at my email adress.
Regards
Mr Liam Brophy // September 14, 2008 at 5:06 pm |
I am a director off biofuel company in Ireland growing hemp we need harvesting machinery please contact me.
Indrek // October 4, 2009 at 2:16 pm |
Hey Hans,
Sorry for taking a whole year to get back to you. I didn’t get any response on my question for months and I moved on. My father is farming in Estonia. There was a farmer in Estonia who sowed industrial hemp and at the end there wasn’t anything to harvest with and quite frankly they didn’t know what to do with it. So my father was interested in what kind of equipment is needed for harvesting and further processing the raw material. I live in United States and I’m hoping to see legalization of farming industrial hemp being passed here in the States in near future. Hopefully our current administration can come to their senses and start taking advantage of such versatile crop rather sooner than later.
Best regards
Indrek Mandmets